deist
pronunciation
How to pronounce deist in British English:
UK ['di:ɪst]
How to pronounce deist in American English:
US ['diɪst]
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- Noun:
- a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it
Word Origin
- deist (n.)
- 1620s, from French déiste, from Latin deus (see Zeus). Related: Deistic (1795). Also see deism.
Example
- 1. He , as well as rousseau , was a deist .
- 2. One view is that like many of america 's founders , he was a deist , believing in a creator who set the universe and its laws in motion but did not intervene thereafter .
- 3. French enlightenment writer , deist and philosopher voltaire died at the age of84on may 30th .
- 4. Article 51 where a mortgagors acts are likely to cause the value of the mortgaged property to decline , the mortgagee shall be entitled to demand that the mortgagor cease and deist from such acts .